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The Construction of Time in Antiquity: Ritual, Art, and Identity

Editat de Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lutz Doering
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 oct 2017
Time has always held a fascination for human beings, who have attempted to relate to it and to make sense of it, constructing and deconstructing it through its various prisms, since time cannot be experienced in an unmediated way. This book answers the needs of a growing community of scholars and readers who are interested in this interaction. It offers a series of innovative studies by both senior and younger experts on various aspects of the construction of time in antiquity. Some articles in this book contain visual material published for the first time, while other studies update the field with new theories or apply new approaches to relevant sources. Within the study of antiquity, the book covers the disciplines of Classics and Ancient History, Assyriology, Egyptology, Ancient Judaism, and Early Christianity, with thematic contributions on rituals, festivals, astronomy, calendars, medicine, art, and narrative.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107108967
ISBN-10: 1107108969
Pagini: 308
Ilustrații: 15 b/w illus. 6 tables
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Introduction Lutz Doering and Jonathan Ben-Dov; 2 Time and natural law in Jewish-Hellenistic writings Jonathan Ben-Dov; 3. Calendars, politics, and power relations in the Roman Empire Sacha Stern; 4. Doubling religion in the Augustan Age: shaping time for an empire Jörg Rüpke; 5. Real and constructed time in Babylonian astral medicine John Steele; 6. The intellectual background of the Antikythera mechanism Robert Hannah; 7. Divine figurations of time in Ancient Egypt Alexandra von Lieven; 8. The moon and the power of time reckoning in Ancient Mesopotamia Lorenzo Verderame; 9. Toward a phenomenology of time in ancient Greek art SeungJung Kim; 10. Women's bodies as metaphors for time in biblical, second temple, and rabbinic literature Sarit Kattan Gribetz; 11. The beginning of sabbath and festivals in ancient Jewish sources Lutz Doering; 12. Seasoning the bible and biblifying time through fixed liturgical reading systems (lectionaries) Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra; 13. The Roman ember days of September and the Jewish New Year Robert Hayward; 14. Celebrations and the abstention from celebrations of sacred time in Early Christianity Clemens Leonhard.

Recenzii

'… editors have gathered an impressive breadth and depth of perspectives on time in antiquity.' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Descriere

Time stands at the heart of human experience. In this book, new investigations illuminate the gamut of human engagement with time in antiquity.